Will the Alba Party’s late entry to the Holyrood election race help or hinder the cause of independence?

A GLASGOW councillor has become the latest SNP defection to Alex Salmond’ s Alba Party, just hours before Nicola Sturgeon gives a campaign speech in the city.

ALEX Salmond has revealed he wants to help write the next prospectus for independence, as he made clear his ambitions extend well beyond the Holyrood election.

Mr Neil, who studied at Glasgow University, referred to the education hub in seemingly disparaging terms in a reply to Professor Tanja Bueltmann.

A CARE home provider has been accused of ‘opportunistic profiteering’ after announcing a fee rise that will result in residents paying up to £500 extra a month.

THE CONSERVATIVES have claimed the SNP they “owe a huge apology” to young people after it was revealed a promised number of apprenticeships has been derailed by the pandemic.

THE reaction of the elites to Alex Salmond’s political comeback suggests Scotland is embarking on a journey into its heart of darkness. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” yelled Robert Duvall’s lieutenant colonel Bill Kilgore in ...

An international malting company has announced a £12 million investment to expand its malting facility in Buckie, on the Morayshire coast. The expansion will support the growing demand for malt in whisky distilling and brewing.

HOT or not lists are staples of Sunday supplements. If there was such a register for current affairs, Scottish politics would feature near the top.

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This last week in Scottish politics has been a bit like a binge on Netflix: lots of cliff-hangers one after the other. First, an inquiry said Nicola Sturgeon was not guilty. Then another inquiry said she was guilty after all. Then the First Minist...

NICOLA Sturgeon will today promise to make ending child poverty “a national mission” if the SNP is re-elected in May, partly by doubling the Scottish to-up benefit for low income families.

Primary school children should be taught coding skills as part of efforts to power Scotland’s digital evolution, according to a leading expert.

I STILL think I’m going to crack it,” Boo Hewerdine tells me right at the end of our conversation. “That’s how deluded I am.”

IT looks like we’re in for the second performance of Alex Salmond and his Monstrous Ego. His first appearance resulted in a massive own goal and made a dent in the cause he’s supposed to have believed in all his life. His second coming runs the b...

MORE than one in four small UK exporters have halted sales to the European Union, and the “vast majority” of firms doing business with EU customers and suppliers have been hit with shipment delays or loss of goods, a key survey has revealed.

Taxpayers footed a legal bill of almost £2 million connected to Edinburgh City Council’s defence of the tram construction project according to reports.

The time has come, as Fair Work Minister Jamie Hepburn said last week, to have an open and honest conversation about race in the workplace. In fact, the discussion is well overdue.

SUFFERING the loss of a loved one at any time can be a devastating time, but during with restrictions in place during the pandemic it has been made all the harder.

Name: Geoff Crow.

It is a Highland beauty spot beloved of the royals, but in recent years a remote loch where the Queen and Prince Charles frequently go walking has been blighted by litter, wild campers and snarled-up traffic.

It has featured on stamps, even in a world welly boot throwing record and is one of the most defining sights on Scotland’s north coast.

The stricken container-ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week was "partially refloated" in the early hours of Monday morning, according to a canal services firm.

FAMOUS for its flowering cherry trees, Japan is regarded as the premier location in the world for viewing the pretty blossoms. The pandemic was supposed to put paid to sightseers this year, but selfie-takers have had other ideas.

WITH spring just around the corner and Scotland emerging from dreary lockdown, there’s much to celebrate and in this issue of Best of Scotland we do just that.

CONVICTED perjurer Tommy Sheridan has announced he had joined Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party.

THE American professional football team the Seattle Sounders have launched a second kit dedicated to Jimi Hendrix, who came from the city. It has purple haze on it, obviously, with yellow and orange splashes. A reproduction of Hendrix’s signature i...

It’s more than a little ironic that had Home Secretary Priti Patel’s immigration and asylum regulations been in place when her parents first tried to move to Britain she wouldn’t even be here, never mind a minister of the Crown planning even...

The first phase of a £1.3bn brownfield regeneration is set to begin with a massive housing development in the Scottish capital early next year.

ANOTHER senior member of the SNP has defected to Alex Salmond’s Alba Party.

THE owner of a landmark Glasgow restaurant told this how he has managed to retain all of his staff during the coronavirus crisis, saying it “feels like waking up from a bad dream”, as he prepares to reopen next month.

The effects of Covid-19 can linger for weeks or months for some people. Liz Connor finds out more about the road to recovery.

SCOTTISH Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been accused of “ignoring the elephant in the room”, by refusing to form a Unionist coalition to stop an independence referendum.

THOUSANDS of people have had their data leaked by Alex Salmond’s new party just hours after it launched – which could cost them as much as £17 million.

Former Scots comedian of the year Leo Kearse is to stand in the forthcoming Scottish parliament elections as a candidate for Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party.

There have been 422 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

He's back. Like a superannuated Terminator, Alex Salmond has returned for what must surely be the final sequel in his political franchise.

Jennifer Arcuri has told of her four-year affair with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson - adding that he was a “cowardly wet noodle” for not standing by her.

The SNP's depute leader has said the party is closer then ever to achieving the “dream” of an independent Scotland.

THE two former SNP MPs who have defected to Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party are facing growing calls to stand down from their current seats.

Alex Salmond has backed Nicola Sturgeon as the best person to be First Minister of Scotland after the forthcoming Holyrood elections.

The writing, as ever, was on the wall.

The chef-owners of The Gannet, the award-winning restaurant on Argyle Street in Glasgow, are looking east for their next venture. Ivan Stein and Peter McKenna will sign contracts at the end of the month to open in Edinburgh this summer.

We’re living in the ‘Age of Hate’. Crime driven by prejudice is exploding, the online world is a bear-pit, and politics is one endless source of division and rage. Criminologists, philosophers, and evolutionary biologists are all trying to work...

GEORGE Galloway is eyeing up a return to Westminster politics and is considering running as an MP.

NEWLY qualified dentists say they are being forced to take up second jobs because the current NHS payment arrangements have left some earning the equivalent of the minimum wage.

AN emperor’s army has taken up occupation at the side of the house. Old compost bags, brimful of stony, weed-filled earth, are ranked against the gable wall, as if awaiting the order to march.

Neale Hanvey, MP has defected from the SNP to join the newly formed Alba Party, becoming the second SNP MP to do so.

The worst neighbourhoods in Scotland for coronavirus cases this week have been revealed.